IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hobson
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1997MO039136M
  • User Pedon ID: 1997MO039136
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9703914
  • Print Date: 11/24/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 37.8588701
  • Std. Longitude: -94.0024392
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T36N
  • Range: R28W
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: 2950 feet E and 2000 feet N of the SW corner
  • Location Description: 2950 feet east and 2000 feet north of the southwest corner of sec 27, T. 36 N., R. 28 W. airport
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO039—Cedar
  • MLRA: 116B—Springfield Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO039—Cedar County, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Mike Burney and Richard L. Henderson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hobson
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, siliceous Oxyaquic Fragiudalfs
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 36 to 79 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/9/1997
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: slope alluvium and/or residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: plateau
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Bedrock: sandstone and shale
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/9/1997 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    paralithic contact

    36—132

    79—132

    145—170

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    3

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    280

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    340

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    A—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine and medium roots; 3.0 very fine and fine vesicular and tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU056924
    BE—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and brown (10YR 4/3) loam; weak medium subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; friable; 10.0 fine and medium roots; 10.0 very fine and fine vesicular and tubular pores; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU056925
    Bt1—36 to 58 centimeters (14.2 to 22.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 medium roots and 10.0 fine roots; 10.0 very fine and fine vesicular and tubular pores; 20 percent faint clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent fine yellowish red (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, hellige-truog; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU056926
    Bt2—58 to 79 centimeters (22.8 to 31.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 very fine and fine roots and 0.5 medium roots; 10.0 very fine vesicular and tubular and 3.0 fine vesicular and tubular pores; 20 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and 30 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3) clay films in root channels and/or pores; 3 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 3 percent fine dark brown (5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU056927
    2Btx1—79 to 109 centimeters (31.1 to 42.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) sandy clay loam; weak thin platy parts to weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm; brittle; 0.5 very fine and fine roots in cracks; 0.5 very fine and fine vesicular and tubular pores; 30 percent distinct dark brown (10YR 3/3) clay films in root channels and/or pores and 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and 30 percent distinct silt coats; 3 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 10 percent fine and medium red (2.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 25 percent medium light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) iron depletions between peds; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU056928
    2Btx2—109 to 132 centimeters (42.9 to 52.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) loam; moderate thin platy structure; firm; brittle; 0.5 very fine roots in cracks; 0.5 very fine and fine vesicular and tubular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on faces of peds and 30 percent distinct dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) clay films in root channels and/or pores; 3 percent fine iron-manganese concretions and 20 percent fine and medium red (2.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron and 20 percent fine and medium grayish brown (10YR 5/2) iron depletions between peds; 5 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU056929
    3C—132 to 145 centimeters (52.0 to 57.1 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) very fine sandy loam; massive; friable; 0.5 very fine roots; 0.5 very fine vesicular and tubular pores; 10 percent fine and medium light gray (10YR 7/1) iron depletions; 30 percent by volume 2-76-150 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU056930
    3Cr—145 to 170 centimeters (57.1 to 66.9 inches); weathered bedrock; fragments.